Motivational Quotes

Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

- Pericles

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

You love what you find time to do.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

10.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

16.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

18.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

19.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

25.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

33.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

44.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.